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The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
$21.95 Read more“Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance.” — John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ware, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486283100
- Language: English
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Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
$49.95 Read moreIn this volume, noted Columbia University Professor of Architecture Cyril M. Harris offers a unique tour through the entire history of architecture: an extraordinary compendium of clear, concise defin
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Harris, Cyril M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 01 1983
- ISBN10: 048624444X
- Language: English
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1000 Turn-Of-The-Century Houses: With Illustrations and Floor Plans
$24.95 Read moreA remarkable presentation of the “finished ideas of a practicing architect of high rank in his profession,” this early-twentieth-century showcase of homes features a wide range of designs from a Midwe… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Chivers, Herbert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0486455963
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Interiors and Interior Details
$10.95 Read moreThe first high-quality reprint of a rare guide, this reproduction of an 1882 publication features fifty-two plates of original interior designs. Author William B. Tuthill (1855-1929) is best known as … [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Tuthill, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0486476030
- Language: English
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The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
$22.95 Read moreIn this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thril
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Le Corbusier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486253325
- Language: English
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Sears Modern Homes, 1913
$19.95 Read moreFor thousands of Americans, catalogs such as Sears’ Modern Homes were the first step in realizing their dreams of owning a home. Reproduced from a rare 1913 edition, this volume features 112 designs f… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0486452646
- Language: English
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The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age: All 203 Photographs from Artistic Houses, with New Text
$19.95 Read moreOriginally published in 1883 to 1884, Artistic Houses comprised more than 200 photographs of the interiors of the homes of the well-to-do, with commentary on the woodwork, wall coverings, color scheme… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Lewis, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0486252507
- Language: English
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
$14.95 Add to cartClassic work by great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Authoritative edition includes reproductions of 14 plates of Ruskin’s archi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ruskin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: December 01 1989
- ISBN10: 048626145X
- Language: English
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The Railroad Station: An Architectural History
$19.95 Add to cartProfusely illustrated book chronicles evolution of station architecture in Europe and America, 1830s to 1950s. 231 views – photographs, illustrations, floor plans, and cutaways.
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Meeks, Carroll L. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0486286274
- Language: English
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Victorian Architectural Details: Designs for Over 700 Stairs, Mantels, Doors, Windows, Cornices, Porches, and Other Decorative Elements
$11.95 Add to cartHundreds of rare illustrations depict wide range of design alternatives for prospective homeowners of the late 19th century. The emphasis is on architectural details – from cornices and dormer windows… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: A J Bicknell & Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 048644015X
- Language: English
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The Ten Books on Architecture: Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of year… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture #1
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0486206459
- Language: English
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Turn-Of-The-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences
$14.95 Read moreThis inexpensive archive of handsome turn-of-the-century designs reprinted directly from a rare late Victorian volume contains plans for a variety of suburban and country homes that are both aesthetic… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Comstock, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 1994
- ISBN10: 0486281868
- Language: English
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Gothic Architecture
$18.95 Add to cartIn a rich retrospective of ecclesiastical architecture, the intricate geometry of classic Gothic design is revealed in 158 expert illustrations: windows, moldings, doorways, arches, roofs, porches, pa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Brandon, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 048646010X
- Language: English
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100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans
$12.95 Add to cartReprinted from rare 1912 catalog, this book presents 100 winning entries from a nationwide competition for brick bungalow designs. Superb renderings show houses in perspective, floor plans, some lands… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Rogers & Manson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0486281191
- Language: English
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Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)
$24.99 Read more“I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
Fran- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0486244571
- Language: English
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Sears House Designs of the Thirties
$12.95 Add to cartProudly promoting itself as the largest home building organization in the world, Sears, Roebuck and Company advertised in 1932 products in a handsome catalog that also displayed a full-size replica of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0486429946
- Language: English
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Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog
$19.95 Read moreFor almost 20 years, Sears, Roebuck and Company purveyed the materials for complete prefabricated houses, providing thousands of Americans with attractive and comfortable low-cost dwellings. Many of t
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486267091
- Language: English
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Towards a New Architecture
$16.95 Add to cartFor the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-?douard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic inve
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Le Corbusier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: February 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486250237
- Language: English
